Game apparatus.



No. 821,348. PATENTED MAY 22 E. S. FATKIN z; E. B. ERTZMAN.

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"UNITED STATES PATENT UEETEE.

EDWARD S. EATKIN AND EMIL B. ERTZMAN, OE PITTSBURG. PENN- SYLVANIA.

GAlVlE APPARATUS..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1906.

Application filed July 28, 1905. Serial No. 271.640.

T0 all wtc'nt llt may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD S. FATKIN and EMIL B. ERTZMAN, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in game apparatus; and the invention has for its object to provide a novel form of game `adapted to be participated in by a number of players, each player having for his object the reaching of a goal to obtain a prize.

The game is played progressively in turn by each player, and at different points during the passage to the goal obstacles are encountered which determine the rapidity at which the players proceed to the goal.

Briefly described, a game-board or other marked plat is used, and upon this board or plat a circuitous path is described, having a plurality of stations. A spinner to indicate the stations to `which each player or party moves is used, each player or party employing suitable markers, which are to be located at the different stations throughout as the moves are made and as indicated by the spinner. ln playing the game each player assumes a iinaneial undertaking to reach the goal or end of the game, and at the various stations en, route the progress o'l" the player is determined by prizes or penalties, as indicated by the spinner. The plat of the game may be indicated on the surface of the board or mat or printed or otherwise marked on paper or the-like, it being immaterial in the general outline of the plat.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents the plat of the game. Fig. 2 is a conventional form of spinner used in connection with the same. Eig. 3 illustrates a score-card used by each player or party.

ln the accompanying drawings we have illustrated an outline of the plat or gameboard which we employ in connection with a spinner and marker. In practice the plat or board will be illustrated according to the outline of the gaine-that is, as the game is a financial undertaking to each player banks, Wall street, race-course, and various other stationswill be pictured, which are visited by each player, and at each one oi these points the players may win prizes or pay penalties, according to the indication oll the spinner'.

Any number' oiI persons may participate in the game, and the point designated A in the drawings represents, the starting-point, and we have made provision for as many as thirty participating in the game. The player having been selected to lead the game, the spinner is spun by the player and the number indicated by the spinner represents the Afirst move.

At the point designated B in the drawings six banks are represented, bank No. l representing one thousand points, bank No. 2 nine hundred points, bank No. 3 eight hundred points, bank 4 seven hundred. points, bank No. 5 six hundred points, and bank No. 6 tive hundred points. We will assume that the 'lirst party playing spins 6,. at which. time they are entitled to move to bank No. 6, and a suitable score-card is given to each player, and as such moves are made they are `credited with the number of points within the bank, in this instance the iirst player receiving tive hundred points. Aiter each player has reached the point B the iirst player again spins and proceeds along the Speedway C, according to the indications oi the spinner. The first player reaching the point D receives one hundred points as a prize. As the player proceeds should the indicator designate that the players marker rests upon the point E the player loses one hundred points, while should the marker rest upon the point F the player gains one hundred points. The player then proceeds toward Wall street, and after entering the wheat-pit he must risk some oi his points in an endeavor to obtain more. The player can wager two hundred and fifty, live hundred, or one thousand points, according to his judgment, and the player then spins the spinner, and should it indicate l the player buys at eighty. The spinner is again spun, and should it indicate 2 the player sells at sixty, thus losing the difference between eighty and sixty points. This should be the basis oi calculation for a wager of two hundred and iiity points, and the difference in buying and selling should be one hundred points. For a wager oi iive hundred points a difference of ten in buying and selling should be two hundred points. Thus in the above illustration the player has lost two hundred ICO .six thousand points.

points if his wager was two hundred and fifty. The player then leaves the wheat-pit and enters the corn-pit, which is played similar to the wheat-pit. The player next proceeds toward the race-track L, and the first player en route reaching the station M receives a prize of `two hundred points. On entering the race-track the player moves in the direction ot thearrow, and should he stop at N the player wages as many ot his points as he Wishes at odds of one to ten on Queen Bess. The spinner is then spun, and to win the wager the spinner must stop at 6, thus winning for the player ten times the amount he put up. To win on Black Beauty, the

player must spin'l, 3, or 6 and wins the same amount he wagers.

Upon the race-course O a number of stations Q, R, S, and T are laid out, each station having an equal number of spaces therebetween. Adjacent to the race-course O we provide the rules governing the moves made upon the race-course, and should the player traverse the entire race-course in from four to seven moves he receives from three thousand to one hundred points, and should the player require between eight to thirteen moves he loses between two hundred and The rst player reaching the point U receives a prize of' siX hundred points, the second player a prize of five hundred points. The player now enters the ball-park l/V, moving in the direction of the arrow, and should he stop on the space marked Pittsburg he wagers some or all of his points that Pittsburg will win. The player then spins the spinner, and should it indicate 2, 3, 5, or 6he wins one-halt the number of'points he wagers. Should the player spin l or 4, heloses twice the nurnber he played. If the player wins on New York, the amount won is twice the amount wagered, and should he lose the amount is just one-half the amount wagered. After wagering a number of points at the base-ball park XV the players proceed to a jumping match Y,

If the spinner should indicate that they move more than three of the jumps Z, the player is sand points, and should their marker rest upon the space cl lose two thousand points,

and should their marker indicate space e theywin two thousand points, eventually l,

arriving at the goal, where the player who first arrives receives two thousand points, while the second player receives a second prize of one thousandpoints. Those players entering the court a may be fined one thousand, siX hundred, or eight hundred points, according to the space designated by the spinner, or they may be found not guilty and may proceed to the goal b. When all the players have arrived at the goal b, the playerhaving the greatest number of points has won the game. The players enroute who have lost all the points gained at the bank B forfeit their rights to continue playing the game.

`What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A game apparatus comprising a plat having a starting-point, a goal anda circuit-ous route leading Jfrom the starting-point to the goal, said route being provided with a plurality of stations, each station being divided into a plurality of numbered sections, certain of said sections representing a gain and others of said sections representing a loss in points.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD S. FATKN. EMIL B. ERTZMAN.

Tit/nesses GEORGE EDWARDS, WM. B. ARMsTRoNG. 

